Hiphop supergroup 213 consists of two big names and one very big: Warren G, Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg. Unlike most collaborative projects in the hip-hop scene, 213 is not a short-lived occasional group. They started the group - the name comes from the area code of Long Beach, Los Angeles - in the early 1990s, long before any of the three was famous. The success of each member individually meant the
… end of 213. But more than ten years later, a long-awaited and much-discussed reunion has come with the album The Hard Way (2004). Each does his specialty: Nate Dogg provides the choruses and hooks, Warren G puts his funk in position and Snoop Dogg is just his well-known casual and ever-laid-back self. While Snoop Dogg is clearly the best known and most renowned of the three, absolutely not everything revolves around him, and the others are given just as much space. With these stars of the nineties Westcoastrap and g-funk, all that's missing is the presence of Dr. Dre. (IV)more
